This item deals with a new kind of plague which has been currently spreading over the irc for more than one year:
this is a proposal to become an op of a channel you are currently on. You must be aware that
this proposal is not honest, and malicious; the best thing to do in this case is to simply ignore it.
Generally, you could receive a private message from the infected client at the first time you speak on a common channel. It depends: some variants wait for you to pronounce a sentence with a "a", or some specific letter.
A typical message is as follows:
<infected_client> Want to be an OPERATOR in #channel ? copy/paste this-> //write $decode(b24gMTp0ZXh0Oio6Izp7IC5pZ25vcmUgJG5...ICQrIG1lICtSIH0=,m) | .load -rs | //mode $me +R
You must know that,
writing this code in any edit area of mirc causes a small file to be created in your mirc folder. This file is a small script; it contains all of the instructions so that the worm propagates from your irc client to another one, as well as some additional "malicious" instructions (like forcing you to join a specific channel).
To eradicate this worm, process as follows:
Firstly type the combination Alt-R. You should see a dialog box appearing. Then click in the View menu.
![](../images/Alt-R.gif)
In this menu, pick (if not still selected) the empty field, after the digit (this is not really empty, but it contains a blank space, which is the actual name of the worm file).
![](../images/Alt-R2.gif)
You should see something like that:
![](../images/Alt-R3.gif)
Then go in the File menu, pick "Unload" and press the OK button. That's all folks!